Responding to Ecosystem Transformation: Resist, Accept, or Direct?

Responding to Ecosystem Transformation: Resist, Accept, or Direct?

We present a framework that encompasses three strategies for fish and wildlife managers dealing with ecosystems vulnerable to transformation. Specifically, managers can resist change and strive to maintain existing ecosystem composition, structure, and function; accept transformation when it is not feasible to resist change or when changes are deemed socially acceptable; or direct change to a future ecosystem configuration that would yield desirable outcomes.

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